Editorials

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Gate Gourmet sacked workers receive full support from paul Brown, T&G convenor  and Jagi Vadgama, Chairman of Fulwell bus garage

Build up pensions battle against Blair government

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AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president

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Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...

Phillips draws back after opening Pandora’s Box

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TREVOR Phillips yesterday warned that Britain was becoming polarised and that the controversy over women wearing veils would lead to worse riots than were...

Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire

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YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...

Francis report will be used to impose mass hospital closures

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NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital. In...

Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister

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TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were confident of victory yesterday

US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!

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IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...
Gate Gourmet workers picket on the hill near the factory the day after the TUC Congress voted to give its full support for their struggle

Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future

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OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...

We need more doctors and nurses not less

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AS a result of Tory and Labour health reforms designed to break up the NHS, we now have thousands of unemployed nurse graduates and...

Obama Commission sets out a plan for massive attacks on working class

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AFTER President Obama’s announcement that he intends to impose a two-year wage freeze on Federal workers, the Obama appointed US deficit commission has called...

Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!

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THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...

Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line

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YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...

Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan

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A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...

Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...

Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians

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THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...

Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK

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FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters

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THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...

Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...

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MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...

Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!

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THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...

State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!

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YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...

24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!

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THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...

Eurozone on brink of collapse – forward to Socialist United States of Europe

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The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...

Police demand sources for Dowler leak

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THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...

Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya

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THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...

US Casualties Mount In Iraq

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US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...

Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking

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TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...

Time To Get The Tories Out!

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CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...

Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

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WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...

GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’

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AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...

Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation

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LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

Carry out our timetable or else, US tells Iraqi puppets

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IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...

Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat

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PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...

Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges

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THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...

TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!

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THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...

Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia

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THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...

Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’

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EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers

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BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...

Brown guarantees the banks while he cuts workers wages

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THE Brown government has not just guaranteed all of the Northern Rock bank deposits, it has also underwritten its so called ‘commercial paper’, that...

Libyan Land War Looms!

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FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...

Withdraw British troops now! Bring down the Blair government!

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MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...

Wild optimism at Davos

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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...